Captain Beeky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The filter is fitted on the tank side of the pump. My question is - why >couldn't the filter go on the engine side of the pump, and then the >pump could be used to vent the air through the bleed screw in the top >of the filter housing thus, apparently, simplifying the whole bleeding >process ?
You could copy what I have. There is the conventional duplex filter just before the injectors, which came with the engine, but I also have a sedimenter and filter before the fuel pump. Because almost no crud gets to the former as a result of the latter, the duplex filter cartrdiges almost never need changing. However, I clean out the sedimenter and replace the (single) filter before the pump regularly. That single filter (housing) has a bleeder, and also I put an upside-down T in the fuel pipe between it and the pump. The upright of the T (which is vertical) has a bleeder on its top end. Any air that I might not have eliminated by bleeding at the filter housing rises up the upright when it reaches the T, and so never reaches the pump. Ten minutes of running or so after I bleed the single filter, I bleed the T. With this arrangement, there is almost never any need to bleed the injectors, which is an annoying job as you have noticed. Recommended. Adrian Adrian Stott 07956-299966
